Iman Islami; Ali Akbar Mehrabi; Gholam Reza Zehtabian; Mehdi Ghorbani
Abstract
Agriculture sector is the main consumer of water in the world. In productive sectors likeagriculture, water is considered as a valuable mediatory commodity or production input.Demand for agriculture water comes from consumers› (agriculture products›) behavior. Thisstudy aims to evaluate ...
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Agriculture sector is the main consumer of water in the world. In productive sectors likeagriculture, water is considered as a valuable mediatory commodity or production input.Demand for agriculture water comes from consumers› (agriculture products›) behavior. Thisstudy aims to evaluate water use optimality in Pomegranate Arbors at the Charkhab village inthe Yazd province. The data was randomly collected from 95 people of 153 beneficiaries inthe study area. This study surveys water demand variations in the case of one percent changein water procurement expenses in Yazd. Elasticity estimation revealed that pomegranateproducers› sensitivity to agriculture water price changes is high. To be specific, one percentincrease in the price of agriculture water would decrease water demand by 24.32 percentamongst pomegranate producers in Yazd. Production elasticity of water input was obtained0.0565 which is located in the third part of production region and means over-consumption ofwater by producers due to its low price. Given high demand for water in this arid area havingappropriate polices in water pricing for optimal water consumption is needed.
